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Quotes About Humankind II
By peace | June 3, 2006
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ~Gustave Flaubert
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man,
Of all things breathing and moving.
~Homer, Odyssey
Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse. ~Miguel de Cervantes
Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ~Adlai Stevenson
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ~Albert Einstein
God doesn’t measure His bounty, but oh how we do! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911
The human race is governed by its imagination. ~Napoleon
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs. ~Abraham Meyerson
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. ~Sydney Smith
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~Pierre Troubetzkoy
The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth. ~W.R. Koehler, The Koehler Method of Dog Training
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~Josh Billings
We have no choice but to be guilty.
God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
~Archibald MacLeish, JB, 1958
Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. ~Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996
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